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Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: A Glossary of Hardboiled Slang

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Link Details: combination of slang spoken by Philip Marlowe, Sam Spade, Mike Hammer and the Continental Op. When Cagney, Bogart, Robinson and Raft got in a turf war, this is how they talked.
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